Subject: Re: William Maxwell/JDS in New Yorker
From: Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Date: Mon Jan 10 2000 - 22:00:24 EST
At 7:39 PM -0500 on 1/10/2000, you wrote:
> Am I being picky or shall I fire off a letter to the editors there for
> allowing the above faux pas. It is ironic that the essay was a tribute to
> Maxwell's editing and they can't even get the title right for Salinger's
> lone novel...or is the absence of "The" just a mark of the book's
> familiarity?
Dropping the initial article, especially for Catcher, is not at all
uncommon. In fact, I see that more than I see the full title.
--tim
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